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Sad and pathetic that a 16 YO boy can intimidate the hell out of Neal
Warren (AKA Wilbur, Greg Hall, ect) the pretend sailor.

Sad that a little ole Gulf of Mexico cold front can intimidate the hell out
of the hapless skipper of the erstwhile "Red Cloud" and her lubberly crew.

I haven't seen Neal so upset since Ellen was in the news.

Ellen who? Notice, just like the Good Captain always said - she's just a
flash in the pan. A gimmick for advertisers to latch onto for added
publicity of, "She's as good as any man." Yah, right. That is a direct
insult to any man.

Can you imagine having the need to dis a 16 year old young man?
Just how pathetic is that?

If stating the truth is pathetic, no matter the age of the publicity hound,
then you have, indeed, fallen in with the liberal thinking crowd that is
eager to whitewash every idiotic thing a person might do and claim it is
normal to be inept.

Neal will never run out of cook stove fuel.
Neal will never run aground
Neal will never lose a boat
Neal will never rip a sail
Neal will never bend a prop
Neal will never need a tow
Neal will never have a crew member injured
Neal will never capsize a boat
Neal will never be knocked down
Neal will never hole his hull
Neal will never lose a race

You are absolutely correct with respect to all of the above except the last.
Capt. Neal doesn't race because racing is not seamanlike. The World Famous
Mariner has sail more miles aboard his blue water yacht and is still doing
so while poor, boatless and witless Joe is now an official landlubber.
Actually this is a good thing as the sea is no place for pretenders. It
weeds them out quickly.

Stark truth is Neal will avoid it by sailing no where, doing nothing,
and being nothing.

In your dreams, Mr. Cold Front Cadette!

Neal is a man of words, he has a Phd in it. He is more suited at
becoming an expert by reading what experts say, then cloning it in a
puppet formin a sad attempt to impress.

Capt. Neal wrote his famous Novice sailing lessons based upon his massive
personal experience and backed by intelligent thinking.

Neal is a pessimist living on a meger pension. Wilbur spends countless
hours pretending on the internet, it is his forte.

I'd say he is a realist. He understands better than most men the role a man
is supposed to assume in this world. A man should lead, not tuck tail and
run. A man must not confuse wishful thinking with reality. A man is a pillar
of strength - not a linguine-spined yell for help burder on others. A man
does not brag about accomplishments prior to the fact. A man does not brag
about accomplishments after the fact because he does not accomplish simply
to impress. He accomplishes because it is in a man's nature to accomplish.
It doesn't matter to a man if a single other person takes note of the
accomplishment. In other words, a man is self-assured, self-reliant,
self-confident and self-composed, self-contained, self-starting and
self-made.

A sailor man has standards of conduct one step above that listed above. He
gives and takes no quarter either from the elements or from Neptune's wrath.
He certainly doesn't abandon his ship because the winds got up to 45 knots
with seas of maybe 20 feet. Such is the work of a sissy.

Neal will never discover the secret of the sea, or sail to an
uncharted island or inspire a child to yearn for a life at sea.

Capt. Neal's been there, done that. The Good Captain has inspired a whole
generation. Probably even Zac was inspired by the powerful diatribes
produced by the World Famous Mariner.

I would judge great sailors and Captains of the sea not so much by
where they stand, as in what direction they are sailing. To reach any
port worth being real sailors and skippers must sail with the wind and
sometimes against it. But they must sail, not drift, stayed tied to
the dock, nor moored on chicken bone reef. like Neal.

Even if the above were true consider the fact that Capt. Neal still has a
boat to sail and to live in. Do you?

I pity the fool

Me, too! I pity any fool who scuttles his boat in a cold front simply
because weak members of his lubberly crew are yelling "Uncle" and he is
frightened. Said fool needs to get a grip and learn how to command - how to
become a man. How to run a ship. How to recognize failure in the face of
slightly above average adversity. How to say, "I'm sorry, I blew it!"


Wilbur Hubbard